The Turtles Thread (Cuz I Couldn't Find One) A.K.A. I Finally Heard Turtle Soup.

Absolutely, along with You Baby ... and, come to think of it, half the tracks on any Best Of...

I'd recommend Strawberry Alarm Clock if you haven't got any.

the song i've got is 'buzzsaw' - its really good. i'm going to have to get some turtles albums on my weekly record/charity shop trawl. buzzsaw sort of has this northern soul organ thing happening ... and then they shout BUZZSAW and its back to the grinding groove. and he goes 'down ditty down ditty down' ... like falling through a ketamine hole with loads of screaming. then a crazy dj pops in.

tell me scott - which one?

i'm just going into the living room room now to lay on the floor and listen to aprhrodites child.

Cherrystones Top Ten November 2004

1.Jello Biafra with the Melvins-Never breathe what you cant' see(Alternative Tentacles) lp 2004

2.Circle-Empire(Riot Season) live lp 2004

3.Josephine Foster and the supposed-All the leaves are gone(Locust) lp 2004

4.Faust-So far(Polydor) lp 1972

5.Pink Floyd-The piper at the gates of dawn(Columbia) lp 1967

6.Can-Shikako maru ten(B-side to spoon 7")(United artists)

7.Bert Jansch-O' my father(Reprise) 7" 1972

8.Picchio Dal Pozzo-S/T (Grog) Italian lp

9.Joanna Newsome-The milk eyed mender(Drag City) lp 2004

10.Betty Davis-S/T(Just Sunshine) lp 1973

I've heard this many times and believe it to be true.

And "Love in the City" is a magna-magna-magNIficent song. Would that anyone could have known what to do with that and "Goodbye Surprise."

What I find really interesting about the album is that all of the songs build to a very strong and catchy climax. I wonder if that was the Davies influence? It's like he made sure that even the weaker songs that start off with a pretty forgettable verse build to an amazing harmony bit at the end. The other thing that's really interesting in regard to the original vinyl is that the sequencing is so perfect. The first song gets you hooked, the last song on side one (In the City?) has such a powerful ending that you're forced to flip the disc over and then side 2 has equally strong bookends.

this has been around for a while, but:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JHN5HaUg28

May as well restart this thread to say how much I love this album too. It's like a dictionary of late 60s LA pop styles, I always felt "Somewhere Friday night" has a similar atmosphere to "Riders on the storm" (without the sound effects, and a year earlier too), and the intro to "Love in the city" was a pisstake at the chord sequence of Love's "Laughing stock". But maybe I'm reading too much into it all. "Love in the city" - what a fantastic coda. i remember reading that Ray Davies used all his orchestrating ideas for this album because Pye never gave him the money to do it on Kinks LPs.

just bought the rhino 80s repress of this album. It is quite kinks-y. they even seem to try to sing like ray. the liner notes say that it has been remastered to ray's original vision (track sequence is different too). do people prefer the original?

I know nothing of the 80's repress, but I have to say, as a big Kinks fan, I was kind of underwhelmed by this album when I first heard it a few years ago. Still have it, but haven't played it in at least a year. It wasn't that I disliked it. . . it was just kind of meh.

you crazy. go turn up "hot little hands" again and report back.

I have the original White Whale best-of, the one with the blue cover. Had a chance to buy the second volume (with "Elenore") as a remainder once, stupidly passed it up. ("What do I need Volume 2 for? And if I ever decide I do want it, no problem, records will be here forever!")

I would buy any Turtles record I saw in a store

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srj6ISzfw1c

listening to The Battle of the Bands. cool stuff. the Turtles always seemed like a secretly smart band everyone thinks is a one hit wonder.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ9VHRDZn8k

"Grim Reaper of Love" (from 3 years earlier in 1966) slays, it's basically a Mercyful Fate song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSnPWkEHyIs

this song rules. strong Zombies-via-Odyssey vibe. that Edwardian Merseybeat stylee.

"Food" must be the song that made Zappa decide to draft them into the Mothers

"Can You Hear the Cows" some proto shoegaze reminds me of "Here Come the Warm Jets"